Good Wednesday morning, central Georgia.
You're taking a live look
over the city of Dublin.
The time is now 6:30 AM here
on this October the 5th.
Thank you so much for staying with us.
I'm juanie Reese.
Heading out the door this morning,
central Georgia.
I'm going to spoil it for you.
It's a beautiful morning.
You just need a jacket and a
nice hot cup of coffee, Alex.
Yeah, that's right.
Temperatures in the 40s and in the
50s this morning across the area,
including in Dublin,
where we're looking live right now,
about 46 degrees and dew point at 45.
So not only is our air cool,
it is also very dry out there.
We've got 49 in Warner Robins,
50 to get your morning
started in Twiggs County,
46 in Wilkinson County,
as well as in Lawrence,
48 up in Washington County,
52 over in Butler this morning
down towards the South.
We've got 49 and Unadilla and in
Cordell here on this Wednesday morning.
Roll into the radar picture.
Not much going on out there.
Not going to be looking at much
through the day today either.
High pressure to the north that's
keeping a northerly wind in place
here across central Georgia.
Temperatures fairly nice across
the southeast this morning as well.
As we head through the day today,
look for a high temperature right around.
80,
that will come your way around 4:00 PM
or average high is 83 for this time of year.
So in the ballpark.
And notice I put a few
leaves on the ground here.
Yeah, I was driving up 75 yesterday.
I was looking around.
I was like, wow,
there's actually some color in the trees.
So yeah, yeah, I did.
There.
As into the beginning of October, again,
mostly sunny, similar to yesterday.
Sunrise is at 731 coming up in a few minutes,
we'll be talking about a warmer
end to the week and a cold front.
It's on the way.
I've got future view here in a few minutes.
Thank
you Alex. We'll check in with you soon.
This morning an update to an
hour long search in Centerville
that we've been following.
Houston County fire crews found the body
of a man who drowned in a pond corner.
James Williams says the
victim is 58 year old.
Richard Doherty of Warner Robins.
The Centerville Fire Chief says two
men went fishing at Odd Higgins
Pond on Willow Glen Drive when the
boat started to fill up with water.
Sergeant Bubba Stanford with the
DNR says the vote turned over.
One man got out of the boat
and began to swim to shore.
But when he looked back,
Tori was gone.
First responders searched
the shore dance in a Houston
Fire department diver, and
it's it is a pond. Pond
that's been there a while
and it's just very difficult
to get out to it. The access,
as you can see, is very
limited around the whole
pond. Yeah, please.
Sending prayers to his family
and DNR responded with sonar
technology and a sector scan,
while GSP brought in a helicopter
to assist in the search.
Right now the victim who
died in an overnight crash
and to a tree has been identified
as 32 year Rd chaston David Floyd.
Deputies say Floyd was driving
a red Nissan Titan on Hartley
Bridge Rd when he lost control,
went off the road and hit a tree corner.
Lonnie Malley declared him dead on the scene.
Right now, the crash is
still under investigation.
This morning a man is dead after
a car crash in Putnam County.
Putnam County Sheriff Howard
Sills says 26 year olds remain.
Mathis, of Eatonton, was driving.
Kia Optima and Harmony Rd.
When he crossed the center line and
into oncoming traffic yesterday morning.
Then he hit a car.
Mathis later died at a hospital
and air ambulance flew the driver
of the other car to the hospital.
Right now we don't know how
bad his injuries are,
but we are working to learn
his condition for you.
It's 633.
With just over a month
before the midterm elections,
a new accusation is circulating online.
Here in our state,
Republican candidate Herschel Walker
is denying a report he paid for a
girlfriend's abortion in 2009 and says
that he plans to sue The Daily Beast.
The Daily Beast says a woman showed the
reporter of receipt up for the procedure,
a get well card from Walker and Bank
deposit records showing a personal check
from Walker five days after the procedure.
It says the woman told them
Walker encouraged her to.
In their pregnancies saying the
time wasn't right for a baby,
Walker expressed support for
a national ban on abortions.
With no exceptions and a tweet,
Walker calls the report a lie
in a democratic attack.
Walker's son,
Christian,
who is a conservative tick tock influencer,
posted several times since the story broke.
He's announcing his father's
campaign and calling him a liar.
People on the right are pulling
up that I did a campaign
event with my dad last year.
They're saying, well, you supported
them all last year and all this year.
You look suspicious.
You all have been calling me,
saying why aren't you on the
campaign trail with your dad?
Conservative analysts say the coming days
could be critical for Walker's campaign,
who trails incumbent Democratic
Senator Raphael Warnock by two points.
Well, meanwhile,
there's two candidates running for
the Georgia House District 144 seat.
The winner will replace
Republican Danny Mathis.
The new district covers
parts of three counties.
That's making Big Monroe and Jones
the Republican as Dale Washburn,
who currently hosts the seat as
representative of District 141.
The Democratic candidate is Nettie Connor.
The first issue? That.
We talked to them about is current
shortages in Georgia's labor market.
Both candidates say their
solutions include more training.
So
we should be broadening our look to thinking
about more in the way of apprenticeships,
people having owned the job training and
generally just try to be sure that we are
providing the necessary training needed.
Give them the training.
It's not that they don't want to,
it's not like they don't want to work,
but they want their work to be meaningful.
And so give them the tools that they
need in which to get those jobs that
they know they can make a career out.
Just as a reminder, Election Day
is going to be on November the 8th,
so let's go ahead and take a
look at a few other dates that
you'll want to keep in mind.
Applications are now open if
you want to request an absentee
ballot until October the 11th.
Early voting begins on October the 17th
and continues through November the 4th.
Every Georgia County will hold
Saturday voting on October the
22nd and October the 29th.
Then there are two optional days for Sunday.
Voting hours. It's now
636. Let's get a check of
your state news. In Atlanta,
a former Atlanta gynecologist and a
licensed pharmacist pleaded guilty
to running a pill mill since 2018.
Officials say the gynecologist would
prescribed large amounts of drugs like
oxycodone to people he never met.
His patients would then get their
prescriptions filled by the
pharmacist with inflated prices.
The Department of Justice says
criminal charges are pending
for eight more people involved.
The Georgia Supreme Court
released a decision upholding
the death penalty.
And murder conviction of a Baldwin
County man yesterday a jury found
Brian Dewayne Brookins guilty of
murdering his wife Sandra bookings,
and 15 year old stepdaughter
Samantha Giles back in 2005.
Brookings Trials appealed the decision
claiming he was mentally ill and asked for
his death penalty sentence to be removed.
Right now, courts uphold the life sentence
for a Bibb County man who ordered the
killing of a Bibb County employee.
So in 2015, Curtis Jackson and several
other men went to confront warrants
clerk Bernard Mays at his home.
Over a missing gun,
may said he didn't know anything
about it until Jackson and Jackson
rather told the others to shoot him.
Jackson pleaded guilty to the murder
but appealed his life sentence.
Well, this morning the Megan Water
Authority adopted a new plan to
raise fines for anyone dumping trash.
This comes after crews spent hours
cleaning storm drains ahead of
possible impacts from Hurricane Ian.
Observation has showed us that
a lot of landscaping companies
are simply blowing their
grass clippings into the storm drains,
which stops up the storm drains, which causes
flooding. Commissioner Bill Howell
of the Macon Water Authority
sponsored this ordinance.
He says one way the water Authority is
trying to educate people on how little
things can affect the storm drainage system.
Howell says the flooding on Zebulon
Road was caused by about 3 bales of hay.
But he says if they knew how they got there,
that person or company would have gotten a.
Fine, now that fine.
It's up to $250.
A project hoping to support
future educators. Stick with us
as our morning reporter TJ Anthony shows
you the program and how to get involved.
Plus, our junior journalist Abigail
Brooke tells you all about what the critter
fixers will be doing here in Macon.
The time is now 6:38 AM we have a
lot of events as usual plan this
weekend here in Central Georgia, Alex.
And yeah, man, weather seems like
it's gonna be picture perfect.
I was gonna say yeah,
it's actually a little abnormal
to see temperatures this cool.
Wow. For the beginning of October.
But not that anybody's.
Complaining, except for maybe the
folks up in Blairsville this morning.
Look at that number 37 that
is here in Georgia right now.
37 degrees up there in the mountains,
48 in Athens, 53 in Atlanta,
as well as in Savannah.
It is a cool October morning.
Here's the live look over in Dublin.
Depending which way you look at the screen,
you can see the sun beginning
to come up somewhere over there.
When I was standing over there
just a second ago,
I could see it a little bit better.
Now, not so much, but it's there, I promise.
Here. Over the next hour or so,
we're going to be looking at the sunrise.
We've got again temperatures
in the 40s and 50s.
Forty 9 in Macon.
And Warner Robins, 46,
where we're looking live in Dublin,
the radar picture,
no complaints out there this morning.
The surface map,
we've got high pressure to the north.
That's what's helping usher
in this northerly wind,
keeping us dry here in central Georgia.
But we are watching some clouds.
Southern Mississippi,
southern Alabama.
I expect those will expand as we head through
the morning hours here in the Southeast.
We've got that coastal storm
up in the northeast,
wind and rain up there today,
temperatures in the 50s or so.
I'm very happy we're down
here and not up there.
Here's a look at what to expect through the
day today into the 70s by the noon hour.
73 itself.
Then once we get into the afternoon,
I'm forecasting a high temperature
somewhere right around 80.
A few clouds through the
overnight hours tomorrow morning,
potentially a few degrees cooler than we
are this morning here in central Georgia.
46 or so once we head into the afternoon,
a few degrees warmer.
So that's going to be the trend.
A few degrees cooler in the morning,
a few degrees warmer and we'll keep that
going here through the next several days,
including rolling into Friday and
on into Friday Night Football,
Friday night here in central
Georgia with some clouds.
But once we get into Saturday,
things begin to change a little bit.
Notice some clouds here oriented.
From the southwest to the northeast,
a sliding to the southeast,
that's a cold front coming through.
Now what this front is going
to do is actually drop right
temperatures a fair amount,
but it's not going to be bringing
any rainfall with it because
our air is far too dry for that.
So as it arrives,
we're going to be looking
at our high temperatures,
go from the mid 80s back down to the
mid 70s by the time we get to Sunday.
The cool mornings continue
for the next few mornings,
but then notice they warm up a bit,
oddly enough,
as the cold front comes through.
That's because of the cloud cover.
That's not going to allow our temperatures
to cool quite as much through the
overnight hours watching this disturbance.
Down in the Caribbean, it's got an 80%
chance of development over the next 5 days.
But notice it's moving due West here
and towards Honduras, Nicaragua.
So not a concern for us here
in the United States.
We also have Tropical Depression 12,
also not a concern for us
here in the United States.
It is going to dissipate
here in the coming days.
Here's your school bus forecast for the
day ahead of high temperature right around
80 degrees sunrise at 7:31 this morning.
A light wind on the north northwest
at about 5 miles an hour.
And here is your forecast for the fair.
Of course it gets underway tomorrow,
the next three days.
Some pretty nice temperatures,
82 there on Thursday.
86 on Friday and 81 on Saturday.
With that increased cloud cover
and the nice weather is going to
continue as the fair continues
back down into the 70s next week.
78 for Sunday, 78 for Monday.
The average high for this time
of year is about 83,
so above that there on Friday,
otherwise below average
here in central Georgia.